Description

YORK

SE6052SW LENDAL
1112-1/27/547 (North East side)
14/06/54 No.9
Judge's Lodging

GV I

Formerly known as: The Judge's Lodging LENDEL.
Town house and steps attached to front; now hotel. c1715;
later C18 service wing, extended in early C19, raised c1840;
second extension of 1936. For Dr Clifton Wintringham.
MATERIALS: front of orange brick in Flemish bond on chamfered
brick basement; stone doorcase; right return of red-brown
brick in stretcher bond; brick stacks to tiled roof of two
parallel hipped ranges. Service wing of red-brown brick in
Flemish bond, extended in stretcher bond, raised in pink-cream
brick in Flemish garden wall variant; doorcase and cornice of
timber; tiled roof with brick stacks. Front steps of red brick
in Flemish bond with stone treads and cast-iron railings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, basement and attic; 3 unequal bays,
articulated by plain pilasters, centre bay projecting: to
right, lower 3-storey 5-bay service wing: to left, 1-storey
2-bay extension. Double flight of curved steps with plain
railings and handrail leads to main entrance in centre of
ground floor. Ionic Venetian arch, set beneath carved swag in
stone screen, contains glazed and panelled door flanked by
8-pane sashes. Arch keystone carved as mask of Aesculapius.
Windows in outer bays on ground floor and all windows on first
floor are unequal 15-pane sashes with cambered arches of
gauged brick, triple keyblocks and sills of painted stone.
Attic windows are squat 3x2-pane lights above broad stepped
brick band interrupted by stone window sills. Centre windows
on first and attic floors have triple-keyed fasciated
architraves of stone, first floor one eared, with moulded
stone sill and apron. Brick parapet with flat stone coping
masks roof. Service wing has open pedimented central doorcase
of plain pilasters with moulded imposts and door of 6 fielded
panels beneath radial fanlight. Windows are 12-pane sashes
with slightly cambered brick arches: two on each side flank
door on ground floor and blank centre bay on first floor; 3
windows on second floor are arranged symmetrically. Prominent
moulded and pulvinated eaves cornice. Extension to left has
doors in both bays and rainwater goods dated 1936.
INTERIOR: ground floor: entrance hall flanked by fluted
Corinthian columns with enriched entablature: marbled stone
fireplace with panel overmantel. Rear left room: lined with
raised and fielded panelling beneath moulded cornice enriched
with egg-and-dart: panelled shutters: stone fireplace with
fasciated surround, cast-iron grate and bolection moulded
overmantel framed by fluted Ionic pilasters and entablature.
Rear right room: lined with fielded panelling in attached

surrounds beneath cornice enriched with acanthus and palmette,
bead and reel, and egg and flower mouldings: panelled shutters
and window seat: marbled stone fireplace with cast-iron grate
and panelled overmantel flanked by sunk panel pilasters with
moulded capitals and entablature. Front right room: lined in
raised and fielded panelling: panelled shutters: pulvinated
frieze and moulded cornice to coved ceiling: stone fireplace
with moulded surround and panelled overmantel flanked by
panelled pilasters. Main staircase rises from ground to first
floor with cantilevered treads, fluted Ionic column balusters
and moulded serpentine handrail wreathed at foot around fluted
column newel on shaped curtail step: sunk-panelled dado. Lit
by Ionic Venetian window with full entablature. Secondary
staircase rises from ground floor to attics with close string,
column-on-vase balusters and plain handrail.
First floor: panelled plaster ceiling over main staircase has
groined coving springing from acanthus corbels with wheatear
pendants and quatrefoil centre panel. Panelled round-arched
openings lead to main corridor with groin-vaulted ceiling and
6 panel doors in panelled reveals. Rear left room: bolection
moulded panelling and moulded cornice of modillions and
paterae: panelled shutters: fireplace with egg-and-dart
surround, moulded cornice shelf and cast-iron grate. Rear
right room: sunk-panelled dado beneath moulded dado rail:
panelled shutters and window seats: moulded dentilled cornice:
fireplace with carved surround, moulded cornice shelf and
basket grate. Front room: lined in bolection moulded panelling
above moulded dado rail and fielded and sunk dado panelling:
shutters and window seats of raised and fielded panels:
moulded cornice: stone fasciated fireplace with cast-iron
grate. Attic: ceilings are deeply coved. Some 2-panel doors
survive.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 152).

Listing NGR: SE6011552002

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Judges Lodgings, York at Wikipedia
• Judges Lodgings, York official website
• Wikidata Q6302730

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